We always had a real tree when I was growing up. My dad would go down behind our house and cut one down. Then as the years went by it got harder and harder to find a nice one so we started buying a real tree. Now living in West Tn we can't fet fir balsoms, they use cedar trees where I am. Sorry, but cedar is not a Christmas tree,it needs to be a balsom of some kind. So now our tree comes out of a box every year, it's pretty but doesn't smell like a real one. The sprays that you can buy jsut don't smel;l right.
